The logical answer is that IRIX users care. Logic doesn't hold true in this case because of the small, and continually shrinking, IRIX user base. Linux is the new UNIX, no matter what SCO tries to argue.

Just slap Linux on your box and you have an already better optimized OpenOffice ready to handle all of your word processing, spreadsheet, and etc. needs.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:50:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsWhy was I moderated down? Quit being a fascist Adam.http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?That's just wonderful, in a "who cares?" kind of way.

The logical answer is that IRIX users care. Logic doesn't hold true in this case because of the small, and continually shrinking, IRIX user base. Linux is the new UNIX, no matter what SCO tries to argue.

Just slap Linux on your box and you have an already better optimized OpenOffice ready to handle all of your word processing, spreadsheet, and etc. needs.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:54:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Comments Why was I moderated down? Quit being a fascist Adamhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Because your comment is a FREAKING FLAME BAIT. That's why!Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:56:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsWho Did It?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Is it SGI alone or involving those OO.org?Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:57:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: Who Did It?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?SGI plus a third party contractor it seems.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:58:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: Eugeniahttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?> should not interfere with my ability to comment on subjects without having my comments moderated down.

You got to be kidding me. You wrote a comment that is a flame bait and you expect me to not moderate you down? You are really out of this world Mr! Your comment was a flaming sitting duck, AWAITING people to reply to you and raise a whole flame Linux Vs IRIX. And evne if that was not your intention, that's what would have happened, and I am glad that I moded you down in time before we had 1000 comments fighting an off topic war of Linux Vs IRIX.

These sh*t are not allowed on OSNews, and I stand by it.

Read our posting rules next time you feel like commenting on this web site. We are not Slashdot over here.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 01:12:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: Who Did It?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Details of the porting effort are posted at the http://porting.openoffice.org/irix web site. SGI had 2+ contractors working on the port for roughly 18 months. As with any open source effort we were working with the OpenOffice.org group. Just to put the effort in perspective, when we started the port a scratch build took almost 1 full week of compiling to complete one pass. We worked on making the build more parallel and eventually got that down to well under
8 hours on a 32P system. The UNO bridges work was the most difficult part of the porting effort but once that work was completed the rest came together much faster. The final packaging for SGI's inst images, desktop integration, and integration with Netscape and Mozilla's mailcap/mime.type systems was completed after the core functionality was working.

VictorWed, 09 Jul 2003 01:31:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: Who Did It?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?That good since it let me know that the OO.org team might be concentrating on improving the OO itself. Porting to other platform is good but improving the OO itself is the most required job.

I said this as a full time user of OO at work. I found a lot of weakness in OO that was eliminated long ago in other office apps especially MSOffice. Some of the issues I've already reported to OO.org since I didn't have time (maybe knowledge too - I've never tried) to do it myself.

Maybe after this the SGI team can help resolving the remaining problems inside OO. OO will be a real competitor to MSO if it can be made faster and easier to use.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 01:44:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentswhat's the point?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?How many people use an SGI box as their desktop machine? An SGI box to run a word processor?Wed, 09 Jul 2003 01:51:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: what's the point?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?>How many people use an SGI box as their desktop machine?

There are still quite a number of hollywood 3D people who use only SGIs, plus the SGI engineers and the IRIX third party developers. It seems that there was a small need for an office suite, and SGI made sure they filled up that need.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 01:53:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsToo little too latehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?That's very cool for OO, but as far as SGI is concerned it's a tad too late. After the raping they gave us on Varsity program licensing we hardly have an installation of IRIX to install the port on. We had a single O2k cost more in licensing overnight than the whole organization (hundreds of licenses) did just a year before. IRIX was inovative in it's day, but we surely didn't miss the bill. Tack that on to the worst support record we'd ever seen in a commercial UNIX vendor and poof... so long.. happy trails.. etc etc.

-BWed, 09 Jul 2003 02:01:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentsre: walterbyrdhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?"How many people use an SGI box as their desktop machine? An SGI box to run a word processor?"

This makes SGI a better choice for me than Linux as there is so much better support for video and 3d modelling on SGI workstations and now I can write on them too.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:51:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentsawesomehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Now I can finally compare the performance of an O2 to a 300 Mhz G3.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 03:11:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentsreply to something I probably shouldn'thttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?an off topic war of Linux Vs IRIX.

But with all the work SGI has done to Linux it almost is IRIX.

Though Red Hat severely munged chkconfig. The IRIX implementation is so much more elegant.

And I hope I never have to see another /etc/config/netif.options or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file again.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 03:17:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsThe Missing Linkhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?See, OpenOffice was the missing link for IRIX. Now that IRIX runs OpenOffice, it will take over desktops in droves.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 03:49:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsThis isn't so much an OS issue...http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?but an example to other programmers what can be achieved when the software is written from the ground up to be operating system and archictecture independent.

Just jumped over to www.openoffice.org and have a look at the SAL documentation regarding the multi platform API set.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 04:45:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsOpenOffice on Irixhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?This is really great news, finally the Irixpeople get a decent Office Suite, AbiWord on Irix is not very good and not all the export filters work, If Eugenia still has access to an SGI box, I for one would love to see how this thing performs.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:45:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: reply to something I probably shouldn'thttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?What's wrong with this?
- And I hope I never have to see another /etc/config/netif.options or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file again. -

Works great here... Wed, 09 Jul 2003 06:51:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: what's the point?http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?I gave my father a O2 for his "daily" work. And my father now NOTHING about computers, now with OO he can do lot of more stuff with the SGI Wed, 09 Jul 2003 07:10:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: LoCalhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?You ***GAVE*** away an O2? Damn I'd love to have one, let alone be able to just casually give one away! Sigh...

SGI's always made me drool...the untouchable (that is, affordable) computer(s) of my dreams since jr high...Wed, 09 Jul 2003 07:40:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: This isn't so much an OS issue...http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Just jumped over to www.openoffice.org and have a look at the SAL documentation regarding the multi platform API set.

Yeah, I'd love to. Where is it exactly? The only references to "SAL" I can find on the website are in the class reference documentation.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 07:56:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: RE: This isn't so much an OS issue...http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?sal = System Abstraction Layer. Low level API for the integration of all supported platforms. Defines a platform independent C language API to be used in a generic way in higher layers.

for more information. SAL can be seen as a name for the whole API set.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 08:17:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: RE: RE: This isn't so much an OS issue...http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Thanks. Looks like an interesting couple of days reading.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 09:16:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsIT'S ABOUT TIME!http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Man I could have used that a aloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooog time ago. But I don't have the O2 anymore.

To bad I cannot run it on IRIX 6.2 on this old indy hereWed, 09 Jul 2003 12:01:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsLOL, and still no BeOS port ...http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?LOL, and still no BeOS port ...Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:16:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRE: NIN (IP: ---.dip.t-dialin.net)http://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?And you're surprised? this is the reality of the no-legacy movement. No legacy, so software. Sorry, BeOS had its chance, it is dead now. Stopping flogging the dead horse and move on.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:23:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsOkhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?[Deleted by the admin - get a clue Todu]Wed, 09 Jul 2003 13:29:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRe: OKhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Are you fucking stupid??? You got that same comment modded down twice already, and you go and put it up AGAIN?! For gods sake, respect the admins. And you're giving Linux users (me being one of them) a bad name with an attitude like that. There ARE better unices than linux, you're clearly showing everyone how ignorant you really are, posting deadbeat comments like that on virtually every article's comments. Go back to slashdot.

Eugenia: Add ability to log on and never have to see dumb fuck's comments like those to your subscription thing, and i'm in. That feature would be worth more to me than not seeing ads.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:10:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsRe: Re: OKhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Just ignore Todu...he's a total f*cking dink. Maybe if we're lucky he'll just go away.

Anyway...to post something ON topic...

This story reminds me just how much I want an IRIX box to play around with...even if it's just ssh-able shell access.

Anyone know of a free IRIX shell account out there? Just for people like me who love to play?Wed, 09 Jul 2003 14:19:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentsre: Irixhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?Well i had a account on a Origin 3800 (40 processors, 40GB RAM) for my final year project in university, nice system, i like the way that Irix tar will accept wildcard and untar all the .tar files in directory. Try this with Gnu tar and u'll get an error.

Most of the people on it were using bash as their standard shell from what i could gather.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:07:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentsyeahhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?that's why some of us learn UNIX

for x in *.tar
do
tar -xf $x
doneWed, 09 Jul 2003 16:42:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Commentssorryhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?guess I was just annoyed.

I like GNU tar cuz it handles both gz and bz2 compression. Forget if IRIX does or not, but I know Sun's tar really annoys me at times. I really wish all these commands worked the same across platforms. It sucks when you get used to some options that don't exist on the other systems you have to work on.Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:47:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)CommentsCongratz SGIhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?
http://www.osnews.com/thread?First of all I'm happy to finally see something written about SGI and Irix. but also I'd like to congratulate them on their new Office kit.

I believe they are about to launch a new quad R16K workstation soon, whether or not that machine will end up on our deskd is highly questionable Thu, 10 Jul 2003 03:40:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous)Comments